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All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.
Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize for his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. He has also expressed disagreement with the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, ozone depletion, the evidence that HIV causes AIDS, and expresses belief in astrology.